"True Detective: conspiracy and TV series" (The horizon of events, Border Nights)

Thursday evening at 21 pm we will speak as guests in the video column "The horizon of events" of the "Border Nights" channel to present "Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective "(Mimesis, 30) and discussing the centrality of the 'conspiratorial' and 'occult' element in other television series, including historical ones, such as" Twin Peaks "," X-Files "and our own" Night Voices ".

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ABSTRACT:

₪ Pulling the strings of the discourse from the analysis of the esoteric elements of the first season of "True Detective" (2014), in this episode of "The horizon of events" we will deal with the centrality of the 'conspiratorial' and 'occult' perspective in television series also historical, such as "Twin Peaks", "X-Files" and our local "Voices from the night".

₪ With Marco Maculotti, author of "CARCOSA UNVEILED. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective"(Mimesis Editions, 2021)

₪ What distinguishes TRUE DETECTIVES from a very large part of the television series it can be identified in its characteristic of being based more on the unspoken than on the said, of exploiting more the created atmospheres and wisely veiled symbolisms than what actually happens, at the level of action, in narrative situations. If on the one hand this peculiarity is commendable, precisely because of its ability to immerse the viewer in an almost timeless dimension, characterized by the most bizarre oneirism and permeated by the action of the inescapable forces of destiny, on the other it makes it very complicated decipher its innermost meanings, which we here intend to do. Nonetheless, if dissecting the series as a whole may seem an almost impossible operation, precisely because of its characteristic of not saying, no one forbids trying to shed light on some key elements of the story, which can be analyzed for example with the tools of anthropology of the sacred and the history of religions.

₪ MARCO MACULOTTI, publisher and writer, was born in Cremona in 1988 and graduated in Milan. He is the founder and director of "AXIS mundi" (www.axismundi.blog): online magazine of culture, anthropology of the sacred, history of religions, esotericism, folklore, literature of the fantastic. He has published in various journals of traditional and literary studies, both paper (“Atrium”, “Arthos”, “Lovecraftian Studies”, “Zothique”, “Dimensione Cosmica”, “Il Corriere Metapolitico”), and digital. Lately he has focused on the work of the Welsh writer Arthur Machen, publishing three essays: The Fair Ones, Atavism and "Protoplasmic Regression": Arthur Machen's Panic Mythopoiesis (In Beyond the real, GOG Editions, 2020), The fairies, the witches and the door to the Other World: folkloric and ethnographic reliefs on the work of Arthur Machen (in "zothique. Magazine of fiction and fantastic culture ", n. 4/2020) and Arthur Machen, Advent Prophet of the Great God Pan (In Arthur Machen. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Bietti Editions, 2020). In his spare time he delights in writing supernatural horror stories, two of which, Annex to the will of Ölver Huldurr McGrain e Tumpek Wayang, were published in anthologies respectively A penny from hell (SensoInverso Edizioni, 2017) and Looks into the Unknown. Decameron of the Mystery (Bietti Editions, 2020). A third story, The Iceman, received the special mention of the prestigious “Hypnos Award 2020”.